On March 1 XXVI national championship XVII round match between Dinamo Tbilisi and Sioni Bolnisi will be held in at Mikheil Meskhi stadium. The match will start at 15.00. Channel 2 of the Public Broadcaster will ensure live report of the match.
Our Rival
FC Sioni Bolnisi plays in Georgian national championship from 1995. The team plays home matches in Bolnisi at Tamaz Stepania’s stadium which is for 3300 spectators. The main symbols of the club are in white and yellow colors. FC Sioni Bolnisi achieved the biggest success in its history in 2005/2006 when FC Sioni won national championship and played at qualifying round of UEFA Champions League. In 2013/2014 our rival took the third place in national championship.
Coach and Sioni
Vladimer Burduli is the head coach of FC Sioni Bolnisi since October 2013. Under his leadership our rival took the third place in national championship in 2013/2014 season and played on Europa League. In the first round Sioni competed with Albanian Flamurtari. In the home match our rival was defeated with the score 2:3. The away match finished with the score 2:1 in favor of Sioni, although this score wasn’t enough for our rival to move to the next stage. At the moment Sioni has 14 points from 16 matches and is on the 15th place in championship.
Before Dinamo…
Several changes were made in the team during the winter break. New footballers came to the team. Among them are two legionaries-Brazilian and Portuguese forwards Andrew Arauju and Luis Albertu. FC Sioni was on camp in Turkey and held several sparring there. Our rival lost 0:1 with Romanian Kraiova, 0:2 with Locomotive Uzbekistan, 0:0 Amkar Perm, 0:1 with Romanian national team, and 1:1 with bate Borisovo. Our rival lost the first match in the second stage with Chikhura Sachkhere-0:2.
Dinamo VS Sioni
These teams have competed with each other for 54 times in national championship. From them Dinamo Tbilisi has won for 44 times, lost 6 matches and 4 finished in draw. The goal difference is 132:26 in favor of our team.
From 44 matches Dinamo Tbilisi has defeated its rival with big score for 16 times. The match held in 1996 is worth mentioning when our team won with the score 8:0. The team achieved the same success in 1998 when they beat FC Sioni Bolnisi with the score 8:1. In 2000 Dinamo Tbilisi defeated FC Sioni with the biggest score-9:0.
The last match between these teams took place on August 17, 2014. Our team won the match held at Dinamo Arena with the score 1:0. Xisco scored.
Disqualified footballers
Dinamo footballers Otar Kakabadze and Lasha Totadze will be absent tomorrow because of disqualification.
Dinamo vs Sioni-Referee
Tomorrow Goga Kikacheishvili will judge XXVI national championship XVII round match between Dinamo and Sioni at Mikheil Meskhi stadium. Z. Menteshashvili and M. Kupatadze will be his assistants. B Ninua will be the fourth official.
The last match Goga Kikacheishvili judged with the participation of Dinamo took place on September 21, 2014. In this match Dinamo Tbilisi hosted FC Kolkheti Poti at Dinamo Arena and defeated it with the score 2:1. Kikacheishvili booked players twice in this match.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Goga Kikacheishvili
Date of Birth: August 31, 1991
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Umaglesi Liga – 24 matches / 89 yellow cards / 6 red cards / 5 penalties
Pirveli Liga – 64 matches / 255 yellow cards / 23 red cards / 21 penalties
Meore Liga – 22 matches / 65 yellow cards / 3 red cards / 12 penalties
Georgian Cup – 9 matches / 27 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 1 penalty
Presumable lineup of FC Sioni Bolnisi
We suppose that tomorrow FC Sioni Bolnisi will play with the following lineup:
Merlan-Sajaia, Lobzhanidze, Gureshidze, Tskhadaia-Mikaberidze, Gogoberishvili, Tsnobiladze, Arauju-Luis Albertu Ugulava